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NEW DELHI: Giving a message of larger opposition unity, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will march with leaders of at least ten parties from Parliament House to President House tomorrow and submit a memorandum against the new land bill. The march is being coordinated by JD-U President Sharad Yadav . Sources in the Opposition said that Congress is playing a key role in the protest including the finalization of the draft of the memorandum, which will be submitted to President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday evening.

NEW DELHI: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to be anointed president of the party in April. Gandhi's ascension next month has been a matter of wide speculation. But senior leaders of Congress who spoke to ET recently said neither is Gandhi's elevation next month a certainty nor is an All India Congress Committee special session likely. "He may become Congress chief later in the year," a senior Congress functionary said. These leaders, who spoke on the condition they not be identified, said the party is most likely to put on hold its plans to hold the AICC session in April.

By Amulya Ganguli The summons issued to former prime minister Manmohan Singh to appear before a special court in connection with the allocation of coal blocks has come at an inappropriate time for the Congress. As it is, the party is down in the dumps because of a series of poll debacles. Its tally of 44 Lok Sabha seats shows that its fortunes have never been at a lower ebb. To complicate matters, the party's temperamental vice president, Rahul Gandhi, has again shown his unpredictability by virtually disappearing from public view.

KOLKATA: West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee today strongly condemned Modi government for alleged "snooping" and making "unnecessary and weird enquiries" by the Delhi Police at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's residence. Adopting a resolution to stand beside Rahul Gandhi and condemning the alleged act by the Delhi Police, the state Congress has written a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi . Describing the act by the Delhi police as "political espionage," WBPCC president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury told a press conference that the party would fight against this "most illegal act. " "We shall prove how such an act by the Delhi Police was directed by the BJP government out of political vendetta," Chowdhury said.

NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh felt abandoned when, ousted from office and facing a CBI probe, he was shunned by an official who reported to him and owed his very existence in the top office of the UPA government to him. A key officer in Manmohan Singh's PMO did not take his telephone calls when the former PM tried to contact him just before January 17 when CBI questioned him in connection with the decision...

New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi on Thursday marshalled the collective political might of the Congress leadership to hit the streets of Delhi in an a significant solidarity show for former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who was made an accused and summoned by a Delhi special court in the Hindalco coal-allocation case. The move came after a considered decision of the party high command that it should make the court order against Singh a plank for a political battle against "legal unfairness" and "political vindictiveness" against the former PM widely acknowledged for his honesty.

NEW DELHI: Former PM Manmohan Singh will approach the Supreme Court to quash the summons issued by a special CBI court, which made him an accused in a case related to the allotment of coal blocks during his term at the helm of the previous UPA regime. The Congress party, which met under the leadership of president Sonia Gandhi, has vowed to fight the case politically and legally, and the party's top legal eagles could appear for Singh in the apex court. Congress' top legal eagles will seek eviction of the summons to the former PM, according to informed sources.

NEW DELHI: Congress leaders led by Sonia Gandhi will today take out a march from the AICC headquarters here to the residence of Manmohan Singh to express solidarity with the former Prime Minister, who has been summoned as accused by a court in a coal scam case. Gandhi, CWC members, party MPs as also other office bearers are meeting at 24 Akbar Road here following which the Congress President will lead the march to the residence of Singh on 3 Motilal Nehru Marg. Singh had yesterday expressed confidence that he will prove his innocence in a fair trial.

NEW DELHI: Taking potshots at Congress over the march led by its leaders to express solidarity with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, BJP today said it was an attempt by them to save their skins as they are afraid that their role in the coal scam would now be exposed. Saying that it will be the "last nail in the coffin of Congress", BJP also hoped that Singh would now reveal what pressure he was under when coal blocks were "arbitrarily" allocated by the previous UPA government.

NEW DELHI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi , who did not attend the Parliament session today, is down with viral fever. Party sources said tonight that Gandhi could not attend the Parliament today as she was unwell and may skip it tomorrow as well. Incidentally, the contentious Land Acquisition Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha today. Gandhi is a member of the Lok Sabha from Rae Bareli and is also the chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP)